In 1877, an Italian astronomer mapped faint lines on Mars and called them canali, meaning channels or grooves. But the word was mistaken for “canals,” and suddenly people believed Mars showed signs of ...

Illumination, responsible for hits such as the “Minions” and “Sing” franchises, has released the trailer for “Not Alone,” a new alien-themed animated film starring Timothée Chalamet and Selena Gomez.

Some alternate-universe movies are just too tantalizing not to imagine what could've been, and Renny Harlin’s Alien 3 is one of the most fascinating films that never happened. Harlin's version would ...

This article contains spoilers for the film Disclosure Day. As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third ...

Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society and the most important thinker who inspired Musk’s vision, argues that colonizing Mars and building cities there is technically feasible. The real question, ...

SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology but found nothing beyond human-made interference. Even so, the ...

NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, 2024. This is a zoomed-in photo of the crystals. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its surface—despite the planet lacking the plate tectonics ...

Perseverance is officially a marathon finisher. NASA shared this week that the Mars rover has surpassed a total distance of 26.2 miles since it landed on the red planet five years ago. Considering its ...

Scientists at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have calculated how time passes on Mars compared with Earth, adding detail to how timekeeping would need to work beyond ...